When we forget to take things slow, we end up burning ourselves out. Lisa Lewtan crashed and burned with her life. Always on the run and eating unhealthily, she forgets how to take care of herself. Finding no better help with doctors, she took control of her own path to recovery. But the struggle was figuring out how. She then brought her entrepreneurial skills and decided to find healing within herself by discovering how to eat better and exercise more, and, most of all, taking things in stride. Turning over the myth of living life fast to achieve success, she shares the value of how going slow and steady will surely win the race.

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How To Avoid Burnout with Lisa Lewtan

I have another special guest and her name is Lisa Lewtan. She's a health and lifestyle coach and she's the Founder of Healthy, Happy and Hip. She's an award-winning author and the host of Busy, Stressed and Food Obsessed Radio on VoiceAmerica.com, which is named after her book. Using the skills she has developed as a successful technology entrepreneur, Lisa self-hacked her own mind and body to restore her health and go on to feel better than ever. With private coaching, online courses, workshops, and retreats, Lisa helps highly successful, hungry go-getters to slow down, chill out, develop a better relationship with food and stress, look good and feel great. Thanks for joining me.

It’s a pleasure, Terri. Thanks for having me.

You were a technology entrepreneur. What was going on that made you even decide you've got to take a look at your own health and well-being?

I started the entrepreneurial thing very young. I was in my early twenties. My boyfriend and I had this crazy idea of starting a tech company, which, back then, was not a cool thing to do. Compared to what it’s like now where people are interested, kids that age. We decided to do this and we worked for years as a bootstrap company. We worked crazy long hours. I was not a healthy eater at the time and was not taking care of myself in any way, shape, or form. After many years of living that crazy, intense way, I crashed and burned. There are many stories out there. I was one of those and I had to figure out what went wrong because doctors didn't seem to get it. It was a journey for me. That was almost twenty years ago. It took me a long time to figure out why it went wrong and how did I make it right. That's how I got interested in health.

How did you approach figuring it out? How does one even get to that place of going from, “This is where it went awry,” into, “This is what I need to do?” How did you know those things?

For the first two years, I went to doctor after doctor and they kept prescribing meds. I kept not taking them because I was saying, “Why would I take something if I don't know what's wrong with me?” Nobody seemed to be able to tell me what was wrong with me. I finally got to this point of utter despair and I had been depressed. By that point, I had had two out of three of my children and I was struggling to make it through the day even though I was continuing to work and juggle like we, super women, do. I thought, “I'm an entrepreneur. What do I do? I solve problems for a living.”

I thought I'm going to solve this problem and I attacked it like a research project. We didn't have Google back then, so I had to go to the library and I had to read books. I started reading, interviewing family members in my family about our history, and looking at the prescriptions that doctors had prescribed to see what...